(correction) ‘*lockdown/social distancing is effectively over’ is what the majority will hear and will decide. The Gov know this.
The prime minister warned that all the steps were "reversible".
Except for bringing back those we lost/will lose.
Seems like half of Britain are righteously ready to slow clap him into the sea,
I'm down with that, providing it's via a plank and the sea contains very hungry crocodiles.
My sister lives in Southern Italy (Puglia). There the wearing of masks in public places is considered polite and they have a very high take up, they also have had a 1m distancing rule. I know that this is not the only factor, but she was saying to me yesterday that in her province there were two reported cases of C19, not deaths but people testing positive. I think it was about 190 for the whole of Italy.
As a result she has been to restaurants, outside both times, can travel to other provinces and countries- but has to fill in detailed forms explaining her route and where she stayed- and generally has a more relaxed life. The schools are not back though.
They think Boris is an idiot and can’t believe how badly we have dealt with it here
Surely these pictures will surface eventually
If the issue is copyright infringement, then just publish them and see if the Tories are willing to give them an opportunity to establish a public interest defence in court.
I'm in Austria. Life is virtually back to normal here. Sporting events and Music Festivals will return from 1st July.
We went on lockdown in March. Everyone listened. Everyone stayed home.Then we had a slow return with masks. Masks are now only needed on public transport, doctor and pharmacies.
Most borders are open. UK is allowed as long as we do 14 day quarantine. I gave no rush to come to UK so it's not an issue.
It does seem from an outsider looking in that the UK truly @@@@@@ed it up. I pity you guys. Stay safe.
It does seem from an outsider looking in that the UK truly @@@@@@ed it up. I pity you guys. Stay safe.
I've got a mate out in Australia where they locked down immediately they got their first cases (total number of deaths - 104) and the word he used for observing what was happening in the UK was 'incredulous'.
He couldn't believe that the government was watching what was happening in Italy and Spain but still allowing huge public gatherings like Champions League games and the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead.
The clueless, slack-jawed face of modern British Government.
He's not learnt anything from these PMQs has he? He *must* know SKS's modus operandi by now. SKS goes through the Government's OWN reports, questions the figures.
Boris tries to dodge the question, complains that he's being questioned and then finally says the figures are bollocks.
SKS points out that the figures came FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
And yet BJ walks straight into it every time. What's the famous phrase about idiocy - trying the same thing again and expecting a different outcome. BJ has it down to perfection.
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Surely these pictures will surface eventuallyIf the issue is copyright infringement, then just publish them and see if the Tories are willing to give them an opportunity to establish a public interest defence in court.
Is Jenrick being lined up to be a scapegoat for Bummings?
Is Jenrick being lined up to be a scapegoat for Bummings?
The photos are unproblematic in this modern social media age, TBH
Porn baron Desmond does seem discomfited being snapped next to an individual with such a sleazy reputation.
I'll throw in £1000 for someone to shoot him in the face. Let's have a whipround and solve the problem once and for all.
I’m in Austria. Life is virtually back to normal here. Sporting events and Music Festivals will return from 1st July.
We went on lockdown in March. Everyone listened. Everyone stayed home.Then we had a slow return with masks. Masks are now only needed on public transport, doctor and pharmacies.
Most borders are open. UK is allowed as long as we do 14 day quarantine. I gave no rush to come to UK so it’s not an issue.
It does seem from an outsider looking in that the UK truly @@@@@@ed it up. I pity you guys. Stay safe.
Well apart from the covering up of outbreaks in ski resorts until the season was nearly over, spreading the infection far and wide. Austria is perhaps not the best comparison for getting things right.
Err, what???
He couldn’t believe that the government was watching what was happening in Italy and Spain but still allowing huge public gatherings like Champions League games and the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead.
My brother, who lives in Northern Italy says the same. General amazement that even with the two week head start Johnson failed to act.
And, almost exact same comments from a friend of mine in Switzerland and another in Aus.
Err, what???
I just assumed that was a photoshop composite, Cold War Steve stylee. But no!
WTAF?
Yeah but the way Dumbojo ruffles his hair, he is just soooo adorable.
Totally without gorm.
as said before kevin is king
binners
SubscriberI’ve got a mate out in Australia where they locked down immediately they got their first cases (total number of deaths – 104) and the word he used for observing what was happening in the UK was ‘incredulous’.
Obviously a big part of the problem is fatigue- if this week's madness is mad enough we forget last week's. People used to say throwing a dead cat on the table didn't work if there was already a dead cat on the table... But once there's enough, nobody can see the original dead cat, and you can't really tell whether there's 10 or 20.
So let's just take this moment to get back to Cat #3 or thereabouts, and remember that the UK lockdown wasn't declared until the day that the first hospital had to close because it was overflowing with covid patients.
Totally without gorm.
That Desmond swing photo is very much...
We are so far down the rabbit hole now. Boris proves his ability to be PM by doing a 'hey I can do press ups' photoshoot for the MoS (aptly described on Twitter as a Poundshop Putin moment).
While Cummings announces (no pretext of it being Boris' leadership any more) a crackdown on the civil service in Number 10.
Quick summary of today’s “rambunctious” speech…
If we let property developers (coincidently our donors) do what they want over the next ten years, it’ll help us deal with the economic impact of Coronavirus this year.
Yep, then followed it up with Nimby's are just going to have to put up with it when they bulldoze brown field 'and other' sites.
All I heard was some utter bollocks about taking a big pot of Major Tom's 100 year old sweat from prancing round his garden, mixing it with the bravejuice from the population and feeding it to the NHS. Something surreal like that anyway. Rousing. Most rousing.
What a ****.
"Down with sticks and up with bricks
In with boots and up with roots
It's in with suits and new recruits
It's build, it's build"
The total amount he's announced for infrastructure investment is just a bad morning in the office for Chris Grayling
What do any words coming out of Johnson's mouth mean.... precisely F*** All.
He isn't capable of doing anything other than speak and he does that ineffectually and incoherently. And that's on a good day.
Any bridges in that speech ?
Any bridges in that speech ?
Everything. Build a vast pile of random shit, quickly and without the proper checks and balances because "economy".
More roads is always an easy announcement. Climate crisis be damned, we have an economy to get going here!
Don't forget being favourable with taxing to allow it to happen.
Said on the radio that the money set aside for roads will build three miles of motorway. Also said the increased % of GDP to be spent in half what Germany have committed to.
More roads is always an easy announcement.
Can we make them garden roads?
It would save all that hassle of making something from tarmac and stuff.
I expect Boris could easily find a mate who was willing to pretend to be a construction contractor who would trouser the money in return for a large bung back to Boris, he seems like the sort of man who has mates like that coming out of his ears.
Bungs are crude, seat on the board for few 100k for a few hours 'work' a month 🙂
(After retirement of course.)
They are spunking £340m on the motorway junction near me. The junction that I used to drive across on my daily commute without any significant bother. Some days there was a risk of a 5 minute delay. On those day's I'd set off 5 minutes early.
£340m on one motorway junction.
£340,000,000.
They may have finished it by 2035 if the other work on the M60 is anything to go by
going all "Roosevelt" doesn't bode well, the World was dragged out of the great depression by tooling up for world war 2.
He's not going FDR, he's just re-announcing a reasonable size capital spending project that plays well to the "new Tory" voters he won over last year. It's nothing like the scale of either of FDR's plans, and isn't targeted at creating jobs, it isn't enshrining workers rights, it isn't about building a safety net for people without secure employment... it's targeted at companies who've paid for this government and expect to be looked after by it.
and yet i managed to say all that with a pair of "" 😉
Marina Hyde nails it once again
Stand aside, everyone: the Conservative cowboy builders are back on the job
As currently announced, Johnson’s “new deal” is just over 0.6% of the spend of Roosevelt’s New Deal, which is perhaps why he’s focused on upgrading the A15 in the Humber area rather than building the equivalent of the Lincoln Tunnel. He can’t build you a Hoover Dam, but he can probably run to a Hoover. Of course, one doesn’t expect accurate historical references from the prime minister, who is 0.6% as clever as he thinks he is.
Maybe the lectern notice should have read: Bish - Bash - Bosh
The if you're in a whole keep digging bit that get's me; I'm awaiting the claim it's a trade tunnel to Australia.
this response to the Marina Hyde piece seems apt.
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte
though he probably didn't say in english!
If we let property developers (coincidently our donors) do what they want over the next ten years, it’ll help us deal with the economic impact of Coronavirus this year.
Unfortunately they were never going to go down the route of securing building trade jobs and social housing by pushing that rather than just having us end up more mini me mansion alikes on increasingly smaller plots.
How many of these things are actually new projects? I'm guessing you don't just knock up a road building project over night. I think they've already announced the A66 twice as investment guess third times a charm.
The schools investment sounded like a big figure but over ten years - how much is that actually going to be in years 8,9,10. Wasn't it also about 20% of what has actually been identified as required to address years of under investment.
Nicola Sturgeon reckons it's actually no new money at all.
For perspective, repairs to Westminster will cost at least £4bn.
First rule of tory spending announcements isn't it? Check how many times the same amount has already been announced, then check how many years it's over, and when the funding starts.
